# microsoft/azure-skills

Official agent plugin providing skills and MCP server configurations for Azure scenarios.

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/azure-skills
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: agent-skills
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:06:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 13
- inputs: {"age_days": 188, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 1.0, "n_releases_24m": 51}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1414, forks 238 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:39.074844+00:00)

## What it is
An official Microsoft agent plugin that packages curated Azure skills with MCP server configurations (Azure MCP Server and Foundry MCP) for coding agents. It combines decision guidance, workflows, and guardrails with 200+ structured execution tools across 40+ Azure services.

## Use cases
- deploy an app to azure from my coding agent
- diagnose why my azure app is failing
- estimate azure costs for my architecture
- set up aks cluster with best practices
- register an entra app for authentication
- query azure logs and application insights
- migrate my workload to azure
- manage azure rbac permissions

## When to choose
- you use a compatible coding agent (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc.) and work with Azure regularly
- you want guided Azure workflows with guardrails rather than generic cloud advice
- you need live Azure resource operations like deployment, diagnostics, and cost analysis from your agent

## When to avoid
- you don't use Azure or a compatible MCP-capable coding agent
- you need fully automated CI/CD pipelines rather than interactive agent-assisted workflows
- you require a non-Microsoft cloud provider

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: mcp, agent-framework, developer-tools, deployment, monitoring, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, cli, editor-plugin
- tags: azure, mcp-server, agent-skills, copilot, claude-code, cloud-automation, microsoft-foundry, ai-agents, devops, automation

## Member repositories
- microsoft/azure-skills (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.074844+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:38:13.467248+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.074844+00:00, sha 2ecf1430cda8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.